The Pros And Cons Of Prescription Medicine
When you walk into a doctor's office you expect to receive treatment for your ailment and walk out. In a few weeks with proper rest and medication, you're back to normal, except you're not. The pain never-ceasing, you're forced to live the remainder of your life on prescription drugs. The blame should not be placed on the doctor's, but rather the pharmaceutical industry. Profiting on system preservation and disease control, these companies are creating addictions by treating a patient with a disease that will never be resolved. Once healers now stealers, pharmaceutical companies are prescription thugs.
Prescription and thugs are not two words that come to mind when thinking about health care. Instead, these words relate to medicine. Doctors …show more content…
Thug is a word described by the Oxford English Dictionary as a violent person, especially a criminal. Prescription is a widely familiar word in the medical sphere , but rarely paired with the with the word thug. A criminal nature is not something you associate with the medical industry. Healing has turned into robbing the good of humanity. Obtaining trust in a doctor has become increasingly hard to find when someone is constantly pulling at their strings. In the early formation, practitioners sought cures and treatments for the sick whereas now medicine has become a game of …show more content…
In 2015, the money spent on prescription drugs reached $457 billion and by the year 2020, it will be over $610 billion.They are selling addiction through prevention and becoming one of the most powerful industries in the world. Feeding into the world market, pharmaceutical companies stocks are at an all-time high. Unlikely pill poppers are funding a world unknown to them. The dramatic increase in revenue is due to the soaring price of medication. Pharmaceutical companies are using the money earned from medication sales to aid in the United States Food and Drug Administration's yearly budget. Other parts of the earnings cover the cost of scandals from fraud, embezzlement, lawsuits, and more (Llamas 1-2). Prescription thugs are intensifying in danger and cunningly deceitful in
Prescription and thugs are not two words that come to mind when thinking about health care. Instead, these words relate to medicine. Doctors …show more content…
Thug is a word described by the Oxford English Dictionary as a violent person, especially a criminal. Prescription is a widely familiar word in the medical sphere , but rarely paired with the with the word thug. A criminal nature is not something you associate with the medical industry. Healing has turned into robbing the good of humanity. Obtaining trust in a doctor has become increasingly hard to find when someone is constantly pulling at their strings. In the early formation, practitioners sought cures and treatments for the sick whereas now medicine has become a game of …show more content…
In 2015, the money spent on prescription drugs reached $457 billion and by the year 2020, it will be over $610 billion.They are selling addiction through prevention and becoming one of the most powerful industries in the world. Feeding into the world market, pharmaceutical companies stocks are at an all-time high. Unlikely pill poppers are funding a world unknown to them. The dramatic increase in revenue is due to the soaring price of medication. Pharmaceutical companies are using the money earned from medication sales to aid in the United States Food and Drug Administration's yearly budget. Other parts of the earnings cover the cost of scandals from fraud, embezzlement, lawsuits, and more (Llamas 1-2). Prescription thugs are intensifying in danger and cunningly deceitful in